Mrs. Adams’ midnight visitor

May 14, 2017 Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery

By Michael Jordan
At around midnight on Friday, March 28, 2014, a neighbour of 78-year-old Yvonne Adams saw a man rapping at the elderly woman’s front door. The visitor was said to be wearing brown khaki pants. But the neighbour didn’t pay much attention, since Mrs. Adams often had visitors.
Mrs. Adams, also known as Patsy Vickerie, was a remigrant who lived alone in her Amelia’s Ward, Linden home. But she was an outgoing old lady who liked to have a drink or two, and would often spend Friday nights at a popular bar near the Linden Market. She had suffered a stroke some time ago, and her friends would assist her in catching taxis to her home after her excursions.
Close friends had repeatedly cautioned Mrs. Adams to take in someone to live with her, but she had resisted the suggestion. Adams was expected to attend a wedding ceremony on Saturday, March 29, 2014, but when a taxi arrived at her home and blew his horn, he got no answer. But no one immediately suspected that anything was amiss, since some had seen the senior citizen sitting on her front verandah on Friday evening and they felt that she had overslept.
But Mrs. Adams’ friends became worried when the elderly neighbour repeatedly failed to answer her landline and mobile phones.
At around 1.00 p.m., on the urging of his wife, a male resident, who had known Mrs. Adams for years, decided to check on her.
The resident told Kaieteur News that he climbed up into the verandah and, on peering inside the house, saw what appeared to be a body in a passageway.
A teenage boy then removed a few window panes, entered the premises and opened the front door. The resident then entered the house, and almost immediately understood why Mrs. Adams had failed to answer her phone.
The old woman lay motionless in the passageway, with blood running from her mouth and an electrical cord wrapped around her hands and neck. The slain woman’s wedding ring, gold chain and a ‘Lodge ring’ were missing, but the house did not appear to have been ransacked.
There was no sign of forced entry, and police surmised that the victim had unwittingly let her killer in.
But what could be the motive, and who could have committed such a heinous killing?
Detectives believed that greed was the motive. Mrs. Adams travelled frequently overseas and reportedly collected two pensions. Detectives believed that she was slain by someone who knew that she had recently collected a sum of money.
They believed that the killer was the same man in khaki that a neighbour had seen rapping at the Mrs. Adams’ front door at around midnight. From reports detectives received, they surmised that the midnight visitor was a 68-year-old man who frequented Mrs. Adams’ home, and who some described as her ‘boyfriend.’
That ‘boyfriend’ often accompanied Adams to the market and to the night spots where she hung out. Hours after the body was found, police took the ‘boyfriend’ into custody. They reportedly found a key to the murdered woman’s house. However, they were unable to connect him to Mrs. Adams’ murder and eventually released him.
No one else was ever arrested and police still don’t know who visited Mrs. Adams that midnight, three years ago.
If you have any information about this or any other unusual case, please contact Kaieteur News at our Lot 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown location.
We can be reached on telephone numbers 225-8465, 225-8491 or 225-8473. You need not disclose your identity. You can also contact Michael Jordan at his email address mjdragon@hotmail.com, or telephone number 645-2447.

Discover more from Kaieteur News

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Latest News